Jaipur: Seven people have been arrested for allegedly garlanding two Bahujan Samaj Party leaders with shoes, blackening their faces and parading them outside the party office here two days ago.
Rajasthan BSP president Sumrat Singh lodged an FIR at the Sindhi camp police station, following which the accused were arrested on Wednesday.
The BSP workers were alleging corruption in ticket distribution in the party during the assembly polls last year.
The accused had garlanded BSP national coordinator Ramji Gautam and former state president Sitaram with shoes and blackened their faces on Tuesday. They also made Gautam sit on a donkey, and paraded him and Sitaram outside the party office at Bani Park.
"We have arrested seven persons in the matter. After the investigation, we have invoked the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. And, the accused will be accordingly charged in the case," Zulfikar Ali, SHO Sindhi Camp, told media persons.
On October 22, the two BSP leaders were also made to sit on donkeys, following which they were paraded in the vicinity.The incident had sparked a political slugfest with allegations and counter-allegations being levelled across party lines.
However, BSP supremo Mayawati had blamed the Congress party for the incident."The Congress first split the BSP MLAs in Rajasthan and is now attacking senior people which is very shameful...Congress is adopting a very wrong tradition against the Ambedkarite movement, to which people can give a resounding answer," she had said.
Rajasthan Minister Rajendra Yadav had denied all the claims made by Mayawati and said that they will look into the matter. He also added that the police is carrying out an investigation in this connection.
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